Twelfth Night (OCR A Level English Literature): Flashcards
Exam code: H472
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Fill in the gap: "If music be the ＿＿＿＿＿ of love, play on"
Orsino, Act 1 Scene 1
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Fill in the gap: "If music be the ＿＿＿＿＿ of love, play on"
Orsino, Act 1 Scene 1
Answer: "If music be the food of love, play on"
Fill in the gap: "Why, this is very ＿＿＿＿＿ madness"
Olivia, Act 3 Scene 4
Answer: "Why, this is very midsummer madness"
Fill in the gap: "＿＿＿＿＿, I see thou art a wickedness"
Viola, Act 2 Scene 2
Answer: "Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness"
Fill in the gap: "He is very well-favour'd and he speaks very ＿＿＿＿＿"
Malvolio, Act 1 Scene 5
Answer: "He is very well-favour'd and he speaks very shrewishly"
Key quote: "Make me a willow cabin at your gate / And call upon my soul within the house"
Viola, Act 1 Scene 5
Analysis
The imagery of building a cabin at Olivia's gate makes this devotion sound permanent. Viola speaks Orsino's love, but the audience hears her own desire underneath it.
Key quote: "Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, / More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won"
Orsino, Act 2 Scene 4
Analysis
Orsino piles up adjectives to describe men's feelings, and the list makes love sound unsteady. He argues that male desire is more changeable than a woman's.
Key quote: "I am as mad as he, / If sad and merry madness equal be"
Olivia, Act 3 Scene 4
Analysis
Olivia punishes Malvolio for a madness she admits she shares. The balanced line shows that excess runs through the noble characters too.
Key quote: "I am not what I am"
Viola, Act 3 Scene 1
Analysis
Viola tells the truth as a riddle, so her honest words still hide who she is. The paradox sums up the play's interest in appearance and reality.
Key quote: "My father had a daughter lov'd a man, / As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman"
Viola as Cesario, Act 2 Scene 4
Analysis
Viola tells her own story as if it belonged to someone else, because the disguise forces her into the third person. She can confess her love without giving away her identity.
Key quote: "I am all the daughters of my father's house, / And all the brothers too"
Viola as Cesario, Act 2 Scene 4
Analysis
Viola describes herself as both the daughters and the brothers of her family. The line collapses two genders into one speaker, showing how unstable identity becomes in disguise.
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